The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 18
And a little ant at once began to crawl over the high wall.
Who acts: little ant · What happens: begin, crawl · To what, where: high wall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ant | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ant | amod |
| 4 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 began | obl |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 crawl | mark |
| 9 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wall | amod |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawl | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a little ant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | crawl | to-infinitive | a little ant not said here | the high wall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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